The Agenda for a Living Countryside (AVP) policy document, which was published in April 2004, presented the joint policy views of the Dutch Ministries of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) and Transport, Public Works and Water Management (V&W) on preparing the Dutch rural areas for future changes. The progress and implementation of this policy need to be monitored and evaluated. The Ministry of Agriculture s Department of Rural Affairs (LNV-DP) coordinates the Agenda policy and is therefore primarily responsible for reporting to the Dutch parliament and making available the information required for monitoring.
The WOT programme entitled Monitoring and Evaluation System for the Agenda for a living countryside programme (ME-AVP) is intended to develop a systematic method to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the rural policies described in the AVP document, and to coordinate them in the long term. The proposed system of reporting, accountability and evaluation requires data on effects, results, performance and budgets. The ME-AVP programme coordinates and organises the required data logistics, provides decentralised data storage (digital archive) and presents the reports and data through a web portal.
Products:
An up-to-date overview of data available for the monitoring of the Agenda for a Living Countryside programme, via a web portal (called Stand van het Platteland, i.e. state of the countryside), which offers a coherent and clear description of policy goals (Multi-year Programme goals) and indicators (performance and effects).
Facilitating data provision by assessing the baseline situation as regards performance and effects, by describing indicators (data logistics, data processing, quality assurance and cost estimates) in fact sheets.
An operational information system for the ME-AVP programme, consisting of a management and presentation module, viz. the state of the countryside web portal, which presents all information about the progress made in the programme s implementation, in terms of performance and effects.
Coordinating the monitoring and evaluation activities of the ME-AVP system and managing the new information system. After the ME-AVP information becomes operational, the information will be aggregated and presented in national reports (whose format and frequency will be decided on by the programme coordinators in 2005).
Publications of this programme are available Here |
